Author: walter irvin
Date: 10:33:07 12/02/00
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On December 02, 2000 at 12:06:17, Georg Langrath wrote: >It is interesting how strong chesscomputers will be in future only depending on >hardware. Couldn’t you get an idea if you let two computers play against each >others with auto 232? One of the computer had usual time controls and the other >ten times longer time. Then you see what ELO the computer got that had the long >time controls. In that way you could foresee how strong computers could get, >when they are ten times faster than today. > >Georg the test you want to run would be better if ponder were left off .because if the program that gets less time predicts the move then the fact that it gets less time will be cancelled out .so your test would be good if ponder was off on both programs .but i think if you take the same program and run it on 2 machines ponder off with machine A 3 min a move machine B 30 min a move . i think you would be very dissapointed at the result .it would be much closer than you would hope .after a certain point the net gain gets less and less .we are getting to a point in time where there will be some stagnation .cpu speeds will no longer come along and save the day .the programmers themselves must produce something to forge ahead .
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